Energy is the lifeblood of modern societies. In the past decades, the world's energy
consumption and associated CO 2 emissions increased rapidly due to the increases in …

Technology alone will not achieve building energy conservation goals, and humans and
their energy-related behavior in buildings must be included in energy performance efforts …

Occupant behavior is now widely recognized as a major contributing factor to uncertainty of
building performance. While a surge of research on the topic has occurred over the past four …

Occupant behavior has been widely considered as one of the key influencing factors on
building energy consumption. The complexity of its formation mechanism and the dynamic …

In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and
actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …

Occupant behavior is nowadays acknowledged as a main source of discrepancy between
predicted and actual building performance; therefore, researchers attempt to model …

Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption.
However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …

The rapidly increasing electricity demand and the expected increase in the contribution of
variable renewable energy sources raise the need for looking at the characteristics of long …

Occupant-related inputs are significant parameters that influence energy simulation
accuracy at both the building and urban levels. In most previous research works, fixed …

In residential buildings, occupant behavior and occupancy status have a significant impact
on energy consumption variation. Although the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating …